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Waldemar Bonsels

1880 - 1952

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Waldemar Bonsels (21 February 1880 – 31 July 1952) was a German writer and creator of Maya the Bee. He was born in Ahrensburg. Bonsels's most famous work is the children's book Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer (The Adventures of Maya the Bee). This work served the basis for a Japanese animated television series Maya the Honey Bee in the mid-1970s, as well as a Croatian opera for children written by Bruno Bjelinski. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Waldemar Bonsels is the 2,088th most popular writer (up from 2,625th in 2019), the 2,264th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,782nd in 2019) and the 136th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 2,088 out of 7,302. Before him are Wolfgang Borchert, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Pierre Plantard, Salvador de Madariaga, François Hotman, and Marcus Tullius Tiro. After him are Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Marjorie Boulton, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Yoshida Kenkō, Menasseh Ben Israel, and Armin T. Wegner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 83. Before him are Leon Rupnik, Fethi Okyar, Hermann von Keyserling, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Alfred J. Lotka, and Kōdō Sawaki. After him are Osami Nagano, Johannes Aavik, Leonard Woolley, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, and Joseph Trumpeldor. Among people deceased in 1952, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 62. Before him are Otto Dietrich, Carlo Sforza, Paul Neményi, Keisuke Okada, William Fox, and Clark L. Hull. After him are Henri Winkelman, Eli Heckscher, Albert Forster, Kenwa Mabuni, Princess Hilda of Nassau, and Pierre Renoir.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 2,265 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Lawrence (1965), Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1425), Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), and Andre Gunder Frank (1929). After him are Christian Lorenz (1966), Louis III, Elector Palatine (1378), Ernst Barkmann (1919), Karl Brugmann (1849), Ernst Neufert (1900), and John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Waldemar Bonsels ranks 136. Before him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Yehuda Amichai (1924), Elvira Madigan (1867), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Gustav Schwab (1792), and Wolfgang Borchert (1921). After him are Armin T. Wegner (1886), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Erich Mühsam (1878), and Judith Kerr (1923).

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